Honestly, I agree. I had absolutely no clue what it meant and, although it was a decently entertaining skip the fact that should have probably been easier to understand for laymen puts it firmly in novote territory for me.

There's a lot of meaningless jargon front-loaded onto the description. But honestly, I clicked the link for 3045, read it, and now everything kind of pales in comparison. c.c I guess you shot yourself in the foot with that one.

I've read the complaints about jargon, and have updated the text accordingly to put things simply without interrupting the flow. This was hard because I was essentially trying to describe a very nonscientific thing in scientific terms. Essentially if you downvoted because you couldn't understand, please reread below and see if you still don't like it.

We attach pieces, little copies of our consciousness to objects. This is in of itself, non-anomalous. Even we are aware of it. Like, if you buy a Nazi helmet, you might get weird, evil vibes emanating from it if you know it's history. These copies of ourselves, "object spirits" as it were, do not have much agency and exist in pretty much everything.

What happened here is a couple of racists took offense at a black band, and contacted a group of alchemists to erase the band's single from history. They accomplished this using a thaumaturgic ritual involving a bee, (because of the band's name). This essentially caused everyone who interacts with the specific record used in the ritual, from the moment of it's creation to the Foundation today, to have a little piece of their consciousness attached to the record's "spirit". The sheer number of people who have interacted with this record and copies of it, means the harmless spirit has grown into a full-blown gestalt consciousness. Constantly being crushed by each other because the object doesn't support that much "concept of owner" at once, the minds are on the brink of teetering into a consciousness singularity. Instead they seem to be acting as some sort of thought-based hive mind organism, influenced by the bee's spirit used in fracturing the object spirit. This causes a sort of weak antimemetic decay to the base of the organism, erasing the other copies, the band, and the label from history, although not the people.

But, they aren't alone in the noosphere (essentially to human thought on earth as the biosphere is to all life on earth). Because the much more powerful SCP-3125 is invading the same space SCP-3796 is sharing, and it has begun to panic, increasing it's teetering.

TL;DR: Objects have Stands, the KKK fuck with a Stand, now the Stand is made of lots of little Stands and about to collapse into a Stand-black-hole. Also the Stand is now painfully aware of SCP-3125, which lives in the Stand-dimension, and the Many-Stand is shitting it's Stand-pants.

Wow. Okay. I think the problem is you're taking an esoteric, erudite and completely out-there concept and treating it as a given when it should really be the focus of the article. The fact that this record has a bunch of souls trapped or imprinted on it, as can be demonstrably indicated? That's an anomaly. That's not something the Foundation should have a list of standard jargon to describe. It also doesn't help that there's going to be a lot of sitting down and explaining the concept in the article.

God, your explanation is so cool, and the log at the end is dynamite. Unfortunately, I can't parse at all what the thing is saying for a lot of the middle. "The physical record aspect of SCP-3796 is home to a highly aggressive Class VII noncorporeal, ideatic, noosphere-based sapient personality matrix" just makes my eyes glaze over. The footnote helps, but it also makes the article seem less professional (why would the Foundation need layman's terms?).

I don't like fifthism at the best of times (way too complicated), but to me this seems like a really cool anomalous object that's being bogged down by these ties. Tentative upvote because I really do like the end log, but I think this could be a lot more accessible and cooler for it.

The footnote helps, but it also makes the article seem less professional (why would the Foundation need layman's terms?).

Personally, I've always thought that the Series catalogue was (mostly) accessable by (most) reseachers of a certain level. The Foundation is still a scientific organization, and peer-review is a major component of the modern scientific process.

Anomalies are indescribable by science, but (mostly) follow at least some kind of internal logic, which may apply in some degree to other SCPs. So, the idea is (in my mind), that by allowing other researchers to view the series catalogues, it may help them with their projects, even if their SCP(s) aren't in the same field of study. Hence the laymen terms footnotes; they're not there for the researchers assigned to 3796, they're for, say, the microbiology or astrophysics specialists who are browsing the catalogue because they've hit a roadblock on their own projects and hope that some outside inspiration may help. "Huh, they did X and Y to this SCP. If I modify the process a bit and substitue it with A and B, it might work on mine."

I agree that the document is relevant to more than just the primary researchers, but the phrase that's sticking with me is literally "in layman's terms". Everyone working at the foundation who would have access to the documents is not a layman. If Scruffy the janitor is going through the documents on the reg, I can see how it would be there, but in this the words "Simply put in layman's terms" could be cut and it would seem much more real to me.

On this same front it's common in actual scholarly articles to include layman's explanations. Nobody can be an expert on everything, so a batrachologist writing a paper on frogs that hibernate might include layman's explanations of obscure amphibian biology terms and concepts for the benefit of the entomologist comparing frog hibernation to insect hibernation and the chemical engineer trying to develop a more environmentally-friendly antifreeze.

You also see a lot of thought experiments that use simple, often amusing, scenarios to examine complicated ideas. One of my favorites is the Ladder Paradox which examines some cool quirks regarding the dilation of space: a ladder moving a sufficient percentage of the speed of light will fit into an arbitrarily small garage. (According to the math, it will then explode because spacetime don't take kindly ta bein' effed with.)

I personally love this SCP because of one line from it "A-one, A-two, A-one, two, three, four. Hit that guitar Reggie! (D-345688 begins to scream.)" not only did I think it was an interesting SCP but that line made it an easy +1 in my book.